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15 - Gesture and Second/Foreign Language Acquisition

from Part III - Gestures and Language

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2024

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Marianne Gullberg
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Alan Cienki
Alan Cienki
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Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
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Summary

This chapter presents an overview of the field of second/foreign language acquisition (SLA) and gesture, which examines gestures as a window onto language acquisition, and gestures as a medium of acquisition. The chapter surveys what is known about effects of specific languages in contact (crosslinguistic influence), general learner behaviors, teachers’ and learners’ gesture practices in and outside of language classrooms, and effects of seeing and producing gestures on language learning. The chapter closes with a research agenda for SLA and gesture studies, outlining some open questions, challenges, and future research topics.

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second language acquisitionlanguage learninglearningcrosslinguistic influencecrossmodal information processingpedagogical gesturesgesture trainingclassroom gestures
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The Cambridge Handbook of Gesture Studies , pp. 398 - 422
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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